Word: bribed
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...recent scandal could foster the South Dakotan's chances, however. On Tuesday, the president of the University of Texas Young Republicans resigned, and came out for McGovern. The washburn, national YR director, had allegedly offered him a bribe to ramrod and stack future YR elections in the state with the radical conservative element...
...called women's magazine fiction, concerns the downfall and upfall of Tony Lowder, a decent, attractive and rather priggish young lawyer with political ambitions. To help a feckless law partner who is in financial trouble, and because there seems no reason not to, Lowder accepts a bribe from a Mafia-connected moneyman whose activities are under investigation. The novel follows the muscular workings of the hero's conscience, which, after much interior melodrama, sees him through...
...middle and upper classes, who have the money to buy phony papers or grease the palms of corrupt officials. Rich families simply send their children out of the country, frequently buying a certificate from a doctor stating that they need medical treatment only offered abroad. Some wealthy families even bribe South Vietnamese army helicopter pilots to fly their draft-eligible sons to Cambodia, where a laissez-passer for travel outside Southeast Asia can be purchased easily...
...movie's action springs from an 1876 vote by the Missouri house of representatives to give full amnesty to Cole, Jesse and their assorted brothers and buddies. The house speaker, bribed by the railroad, decides that the entire motion is out of order. This sits fine with Jesse (Robert Duvall), who fancies his "guerrilla raids," but Cole (Cliff Robertson) wants the pardon. To raise money for a counter-bribe to the speaker, the gang sets off to rob a bank in the small town of Northfield, Minn. Cole knows for a fact that the money is waiting for them...
...Indochina who has not been touched directly, in one way or another, by the fighting. Mothers have lost sons and daughters. Sons have lost fathers and mothers. Farms, homes, towns, cities have been destroyed. The draft touches every young man between 18 and 35 -except those who can bribe their way out. And the war, of course, touches everyone in subtle ways that erode the soul. Wives have lost husbands, brothers have lost brothers, lovers have lost lovers...